HINDOO MARRIAGES
EVADING THE NEW ACT. TUnited Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.] (Received this day at 9.25 a.m.) DELHI, March 27 Hundreds of thousands of boys and girls mostly of Hindu caste, many still in the cradle, are being married throughout India in the \ l ast few days, in order to evade the provisions of the Indian Child Marriage Act which comes into operation on Tue.sdav next.
The Act raises the marriage age to fourteen and the age of consent to sixteen. Most of the brides and ibridegrooms are between nine and twelve, but instances have been reported from Bombay district where girls a few days old were married, in some cases to men twenty years .their senior.
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Hokitika Guardian, 28 March 1930, Page 4
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